New Zealand World Championship

 Recounting Damages:

 Two Podiums, One Top Nine Junior Elite.

A day before the race, after the organizer mentioned that drafting was not permitted and 10 meters between each cyclist was just accepted.  I said to Yosua and Armando: “Be careful, you look like Mexicans and anything that looks like you are drafting the judge will punish you.”  There is no way out of it.  It is better to lose a few meters than the race.  Well, it happened, Yosua was punished with two minutes penalty and lost the podium.  He ended up fourth but we considered that he at least won the second place, or perhaps he could lose the first place.  Yosua was punished because “he took advantage of drafting going downhill before an intersection.”  This is another thing to encounter when practicing sports, judges that do not know the in and out of the sport.  That is why I do not believe in “appreciative” sports.

Armando made his move with himself and won the second place in the 20-24 category, he is just 19.  He lost for 4 seconds.  This is the way they grow up in our team.  It is not step by step but a real conquest of their fears to have a breakthrough.  Fear of being different, fear of losing cultural benchmarks are things to overcome mediocrity in Mexico.

THE JUNIOR ELITE CATEGORY WAS A REAL FEAST.  The conditions were horrible to say the least; it was cold, 14 degrees outside as well as the water temperature.  Eduardo mentioned: “it was a matter of staying on the bike; I saw some crashes.  But the majority of the triathletes that did not finish was because they could not keep up with the speed of going uphill during the race.  We lost a Mexican teammate because the hill was too hard for him.”  The rain existed since the beginning of the race but it worsened during the bicycle part and the running part.  “There were moments when we were spinning on the air while passing through the blue carpet.” Eduardo mentioned.  Eduardo has one more year to go in this category.  

Preparing for the race took us ten years, and the details for the race a year.  That is how we see the process of a team.

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junior elite
sprint 20-24 años
olímpico 20-24 años.